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Re: Macintosh charset



Hello Martin,

 On Friday, December 5, 2003 at 1:00:43 PM +0100, Martin Trautmann wrote:

> The charset migh be useful for mailboxes which were saved (converted)
> to a Mac charset.

    Before you mess the original by changing each MIME charset label in
the said MacMailBox, can I suggest something as:

| folder-hook . "\
|       unhook charset-hook ;\
|       charset-hook ^us-ascii$   windows-1252 ;\
|       charset-hook ^iso-8859-1$ windows-1252 ;\
|       set assumed_charset=windows-1252 "
| folder-hook MacMailBox\\.mbox$ "\
|       unhook charset-hook ;\
|       charset-hook . macroman ;\
|       set assumed_charset=macroman "

    This is good for mailboxes that were converted entirely to MacRoman,
since Mutt will display everything correctly, whatever MIME label, or no
label, non-RFC-2047 headers, non-MIME bodies... Everything is
unconditionally assumed to be MacRoman, and converted to $charset
(whichever your terminal uses) for display and quoting in replies.

    _And you don't have to modify *at all* your original MacMailBox._

    Note $assumed_charset is one of the numerous features implemented by
Takashi Takizawa in his Japanese patch, that exists for 1.5.5.1 Mutts at
<URL:http://www.emaillab.org/mutt/download15.html>. Without it you would
lose support for raw non-RFC-2047 headers and non-MIME bodies.


Bye!    Alain.